The Manchester Assize Courts was a building housing law courts on Great Ducie Street in the Strangeways district of Manchester, England. It was 279 ft...

The assizes (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they...

Courts in Manchester, the other being Minshull Street Crown Court. Until the 1940s, criminal court cases were heard at the Manchester Assize Courts....

institutions or legal measures taken by those. Courts of Assizes, a former judicial institution in England and Wales Assize (Scotland), in Scots law a trial by jury...

Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1868 alongside the demolished Manchester Assize Courts. The prison is known for its prominent ventilation tower and imposing...

1867, in an article entitled The New Courts of Law, declared that the Manchester Assize Courts were "the best courts of law in the world. Writing in 1872...

buildings of Manchester: Assize Courts". Confidentials Manchester. Retrieved 20 October 2024. "The University of Manchester's Maths Tower". Manchester History...

exceptionally early work", designed before his first major commission, the Manchester Assize Courts. Extensions to the house were built in the 20th century for Sir Percy...

and injuring more than 2,000. Manchester Cathedral, the Royal Exchange, the Free Trade Hall and the Manchester Assize Courts were among the large buildings...

for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865...

was a programme of architectural sculptures for the Manchester Assize Courts, built in Manchester from 1859 through 1864. Woolner created a large number...

for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865...

Hall was "several times rebuilt". 1864: Completion of building of the Assize Courts on the site of Strangeways Hall. (It was destroyed in the 1939–1945...

appeals of the decisions of magistrates' courts. It is one of three Senior Courts of England and Wales. The Crown Court sits in around 92 locations in England...

for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865...

proposed estimate. Manchester Assize Courts. Great Ducie St., Manchester (1859) Bellamy and Hardy submitted a design for the Courts together with John...

Office, in which he had an office, in 1861. The now demolished Manchester Assize Courts, built between 1864 and 1877 in the neo-Gothic style, was a major...

extraordinary writs. Over time, most equity courts merged with courts of law, and the adoption of various Acts granted courts combined jurisdiction to administer...

Vict. c. 102) Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 57) Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 71) Court of Probate Act 1857 (20...

were heard by assize courts and courts of quarter sessions, in a system that had changed little in the preceding centuries. The Crown Court system is administered...

Woolner and the architect Alfred Waterhouse in the design of the Manchester assize courts, producing a series of capitals depicting gruesome forms of punishment...

for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865...

2010. "Crystal Palace South Tower". Retrieved 7 December 2010. "Assize Courts, Manchester". victorianweb.org. Retrieved 7 November 2011. "One way to help...

facilities for securing prisoners awaiting trial at the Assize Court (after July 1864) in Manchester and the Quarter Sessions located nearby. The gaol was...

for the design of Manchester assize courts. His next major public commissions in Manchester were for Strangeways Gaol and Manchester Town Hall. In 1865...

The Court of King's Bench did act as an appellate body, hearing appeals from the Court of Common Pleas, eyre circuits, assize courts and local courts, but...

customary to speak of the "twelve justices" of the three courts, not distinguishing them, and assize cases were shared equally between them. In 1828, Henry...

Certain former courts of England and Wales have been abolished or merged into or with other courts, and certain other courts of England and Wales have...

1859 they submitted plans in a competition for the Manchester Assize Courts in Great Ducie St. Manchester, but the competition was won by Sir Alfred Waterhouse...

the central courts, and the outcome were the Judicature Acts, under which all the central courts were made part of a single Supreme Court of Judicature...